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Page viii
... poetic faith . Poetry succeeds because all or most of what is said or implied is relevant ; what is irrelevant has been excluded , like lumps from pudding and " bugs " from machinery . In this respect poetry differs from practical ...
... poetic faith . Poetry succeeds because all or most of what is said or implied is relevant ; what is irrelevant has been excluded , like lumps from pudding and " bugs " from machinery . In this respect poetry differs from practical ...
Page ix
... poetry must have organic unity . One might ask , though , whether they really mean that poetry succeeds " because " everything in it is relevant . Would they say , If everything in a poem is relevant , it is successful ? And if so , why ...
... poetry must have organic unity . One might ask , though , whether they really mean that poetry succeeds " because " everything in it is relevant . Would they say , If everything in a poem is relevant , it is successful ? And if so , why ...
Page 160
... poetry itself is a not easily acquired taste . The narrative poet inevitably provides more defensive management of fantasy than the prose storyteller . Prose tends to transform fantasy toward meaning ; poetry does that but also ...
... poetry itself is a not easily acquired taste . The narrative poet inevitably provides more defensive management of fantasy than the prose storyteller . Prose tends to transform fantasy toward meaning ; poetry does that but also ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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